My mate is the monster...

Astrid's POV:

I heard footsteps outside the chamber, but nobody came looking for me. With my hands hugging the side of my legs, I sat on the floor. The bed was the last place I wanted to be. It reminded me of Dominic’s late luna.

Was I replaceable, too? I had been mistaken in thinking I meant something to Alpha. But all my misunderstandings had been resolved.

A breeder, that was what I was for him. Isabella. She was his luna. She was his love.

I sobbed and wailed like I had when my father died. But that upset me even more because I had promised myself that I would never show my weakness. I was supposed to be a slave. It was my fate.

So my mate was not wrong. Indeed, he was right in showing me my place.

“What the hell are you talking about, Astrid?” Masia said in an angry tone. “We are not a slave. Never born one, either! Alpha Jonathan forced to live a pathetic life because he was threatened by us. But you have alpha blood in your veins, just like me.”

"No, we are not strong. And I a